Thus, a legal right is an interest that warrants holding others under an obligation to protect it, a legal power is the ability to create or modify obligations, and so forth.
to modify any obligations under either State or Federal standards relating to the application of a prudent-layperson standard with respect to payment or coverage of emergency services by any managed care organization.
It notifies users of appropriate uses and includes language to limit the liability of submitters, curators, and managers.25 The effectiveness of user agreements to modify the obligations of clinicians, who are the primary audience for variant databases, may be limited.
In such circumstances, distance plays a significant role in modifying filial obligations and expectations.
For some believers, the promise of alleviating hunger with genetically modified foods and obligations to help the poor bumps up against concerns about tampering with nature and economic peonage.
(2) There was to be only a very much modified form of repayment obligation.
Thought experiments like the trolley problem demonstrate something self-evident but extremely significant in moral thinking: how our sense of obligation is modified by distance and immediacy.
"If the court holds that the state can invoke its police powers to violate core constitutional provisions to respond to an emergency that, arguably, the state itself created, then aren't we giving the state the power to modify its contractual obligations whenever it wants?" Thomas asked Illinois Solicitor General Carolyn Shapiro during oral arguments.
It argued that the matter belonged in federal court and that any contractual obligations to repurchase modified loans were trumped by the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009.
Carol Abrams, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, said that because Waterside is on city-owned land, the city did not have to seek to change the law to modify the tax obligation.
The court modified the injunction by relieving petitioners of obligations that, in the opinion of federal authorities, would render the State ineligible for Medicaid funding.
